Dutch Independence Award 2025 for Robert D. Kaplan

 

The Dutch Independence Award for 2025 will go to American writer, journalist and advisor Robert D. Kaplan. The award will be presented on 25 June in The Hague, on the second day of the NATO summit, by the chairman of the Senate, Jan Anthonie Bruijn.

Robert D. Kaplan dissects independence not as a static, legal fact, but as a dynamic reality, shaped by geography, history and power relations. In times when states may be legally sovereign but in practice remain dependent on global power blocs, he has offered refreshing and workable insights for many years.

About the Dutch Independence Award

The Dutch Independence Foundation annually awards a person or movement that offers new perspectives on state independence. With this award, the Foundation aims to instrumentalize the unique history of the Netherlands, with

the Act of Abjuration (July 26, 1581) as one of the earliest birth certificates of modern states, for the world of today and tomorrow.

Previous winners: president Volodymyr Zelensky (2022), the Woman of Iran (2023) and the Israeli-Palestian Holy Land Confederation (2024).

 

The Dutch Independence Award for 2025 will go to American writer, journalist and advisor Robert D. Kaplan. The award will be presented on 25 June in The Hague, on the second day of the NATO summit, by the chairman of the Senate, Jan Anthonie Bruijn.

Robert D. Kaplan dissects independence not as a static, legal fact, but as a dynamic reality, shaped by geography, history and power relations. In times when states may be legally sovereign but in practice remain dependent on global power blocs, he has offered refreshing and workable insights for many years.

About the Dutch Independence Award

The Dutch Independence Foundation annually awards a person or movement that offers new perspectives on state independence. With this award, the Foundation aims to instrumentalize the unique history of the Netherlands, with

the Act of Abjuration (July 26, 1581) as one of the earliest birth certificates of modern states, for the world of today and tomorrow.

Previous winners: president Volodymyr Zelensky (2022), the Woman of Iran (2023) and the Israeli-Palestian Holy Land Confederation (2024).